Grimbeau

Scroodles

From Rags to Riches

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Dragged up on the mean

streets of  Much Wenloch, Salop:

orphaned at an early age

& entombed on death row by four

after eating his grandma!

Yes, indeed, Neil Armstrong was

an unlikely candidate

to become the first man

on the moon.

a modest man with a lot to be modest about,

petty criminal with cannibalistic tendencies.

Till fortune propelled him

into a life of

galactic celebrity,

when,

holed up in a shotgun shack after

an abortive raid

on Dade County Police Dept

to release Jim Morrison,

he was abducted by NASA

& sent,

kicking and screaming,

into outer space.

His last words ‘Goldfish Mandelbrot’ are typical of the man:

succinct yet charming,

dark yet illuminating.

We shall never see his like again.

Petrichor

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Nose down.

The Saint woke

nose down in a wood:

in a

a vast, dank wood.

Beeches & brambles.

He got up,

raised a knowing eyebrow,

and licked mulch from his

granite chiselled chin.

Petrichor,

he concluded wryly

Barley Wine & Camembert

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After the angel dust

shaving the tiger proved easier

than Murdoch had thought.

And, as it turned out,

what Chadwick had posited

was later proven true,

it was the skin and not just

the fur that was patterned.

they were all the same

just get over it

Next week a Zebra,

she decided.

‘ The giraffe might prove to be a tall order,’

said the Indian rubber man,

deftly reading her train of thought.

How they chortled

that evening over their

Barley wine and Camembert

This is not Here

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Slow slows slowly halts

sighs resumes forgets restarts

half-heartedly gazes

into empty toxic spaces

once full of hearts and flowers

twilight fading hour

just before three-thirty

worry not your knotty head

the lice who’ve just gone off to bed

won’t surface till eight-thirty

Midnight Lamp

Midnight Lamp

you can’t turn it on

and off like a water tap

or light switch can you